Yes, your baby can likely smell some of what you smell while pregnant.
During pregnancy, your baby develops their senses, including smell and taste. They are surrounded by amniotic fluid in the womb, and they inhale and swallow this fluid. According to research, fetuses experience taste and smell through inhaling and swallowing the amniotic fluid in the womb. This means that flavors and scents from the foods you eat can pass into the amniotic fluid, exposing your baby to those smells.
- Exposure to these flavors and smells might influence your baby's taste preferences after birth.
- This early exposure potentially plays a role in establishing their eating habits later in life.
Therefore, while your baby may not perceive smells in exactly the same way you do, they are exposed to and can likely detect some of the scents present in the amniotic fluid, which are influenced by your diet.
